The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-06-26
THE GOSSIP OF THE TOWN.
TRIPLES CAUGHT ON THE FLY By
TIE NEWS,S REPORTERS.

There is little colony of Jersey City
people in the cottages at OCEAN Beach.
Among them are Mr.. and Mrs. w. E..
Grattan, Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Throckmor-
ton, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Kinds, and the I
family of William T. Evans.
r. Nj. Jarvis, ex. Commissioner of the
Board of Public Works, who is largely
interested in the tobacco business, wishes
that little of the deluge that visited
these parts Lass week could have fallen
upon the parched tobacco fl slds in the
South.
Ex-Director Schinzsl, who sailed for
Germany one day last week, goes back to
see the Faderland for the first time since
he left it forty. six years age. His eye will
probably note marked changes in the ap-
pearance of things and in the style and
character of his fellow-countrymen.
Ex-President John A. Walker, of the
Board of Education, attended the closing
exercises of the public school at Mont
clair last Wednesday evening. lie was
attracted there by the tact that his niece
was to graduate from the school. Before
he came away again he presented her
with neat gold watch and chain.
The wife of State Senator William D.
Edwards arrived in Liverpool one day last
week. The lady is on pleasure trip to
the Continent. She may have been In time
for the great semi-centennial jubilee of
Queen Victoria. Senator Mcpherson was
there. according to the cabled newspaper
reports, and had a conspicuous seat in the
ancient Abbey beneath whose tiled floors
rest the bodies of kings and queens, and
the great writer and orators of the Do
minion.
Counselor Flavel MCGEE, who is one
If the Princeton Alumni, was one of the
Judges at the junior Orators Exhibition
of the college in Princeton last Tuesday
But few families can show so long a list
of names of graduates from that ancient
Alma Mater as the family with which Mir.
MCGEE is connected. the names of prob
ably thirty of those who are related to him,
collaterally or directly, are on the college
catalogue.
National Bank, is the only Jersey City
man whose name appears on the long list
of members of the New York Chamber
of Commerce There ire doubtless other
residents of the city connected with that
great trade organization, representing the
business and prosperity of the nations
commercial centre; but as they do bust
ness in New York, they are put down as
New Workers. Mr.. Young is the only
jersey City gentleman doing business in
Jersey City who figures as a member
Sheriff Heintze frequently grinds out
some queer characters from the jury
wheel When the jurors were being drawn
for the Carroll trial last Wednesday, many
of them were either lacking in intelligence
or had no proper appreciation of the obi
cations of Juror. One man, upon exami-
nation, stated that he was acquainted with
the prisoner and his family, and that they
were his customers, and he admitted that
he had more concern for his business in
terests than for his duty as juror. Ihe
fact that he has had dealings with CAROLS
family would influence him in favor of the
accused. He was excused.
The suppression of the smsll boy and
the tWo-cent putty blower would be well
come era to thousands of citizens. With |
his tin instrument of torture the small boy !
secretes himself behind tree or a window
shutter and blazes forth at unsuspecting and
innocent pedestrians, and while his victim
is feeling of the injured part and looking
in vain tor the tormentor, the small boy is
erjoying a most hearty laugh. The tor
mentor may never mean to do any injury
to his victim, but it frequently happens
that the putty ball strikes the eye with
danger to the sight. The small boy per-
haps cannot be suppressed, but the putty
blower should go.
State Treasurer Toffey came back from
Senator Fish's wedding with glowing ac-
counts of its magniicence. The whole
populace of South Bend, Indiana, turned
out to celebrate the nuptuals, and danced
by the light of a natural gas well on the
beautiful lawn of the Senator'S millionaire
father-in- law. The New Jersey party was
trea ed with special distinction. In it,
besides the State Treasurer, were Major E.
J. Anderson, the State Comptroller, Sec
rotary OF the Senate, Dick Reading. and
Senators Cranmer, Pancoast, Herring,
Thompson and Large. The bridal gifts
are said to have been worth upv ards of
$50, 000 Studebacker is carriage manu-
facturer, and in his warerooms displays
S65 styles of equlpages.
Mr. Harry Winfield, counsel to the County
Board Of Health has recently recovered a
Judgment against Undertaken Phillips, of
Bergen avenue in which undertakers may be
Interested. James P. Duncan, who died
in December of diphthe ria, was buried in
public grave in New York Bay Cemetery,
temporarily His family subsequently, pur-
chased a plot, and desired to have the body
inferred in it. A section of the Health
Code forbids the removal of remains. es-
pecially of those who may have di' Of
contagious diseases. without permit first
obtain ed from the Board of Health. In
dertaker Phillips ordered or made the re-
moval without such permit. On behalf
of the Health Board, Mr.. Winfield sued
him in Judge Dayton's court, on the Hill,
for the $1O0 penalty provided in the code,
and secured Judgment. The undertaken
has given notice Of appeal.
Fishing parties are all the rage nova
days. Mr.. f. P. Benedict started last
evenidg for Rye Beach with pole and reel
Elk Nnancier Simeon H. Smith and Mr.